Demand growing across Europe for electric vehicles from China 

Country has the largest EV industry in the world, with companies like BYD now able to take on Elon Musk's Tesla for the label as the world's biggest EV maker

According to figures from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, there are about 67,000 cars currently on the road that are fully EV or plug-in hybrid. File picture: PA

Electric vehicles (EVs) from Chinese firms are fast whetting the appetite of European motorists, as the continent sees massive increases in the number of electric and hybrid cars in the past four years.

That is according to the latest available findings from the European Commission's data analysis wing, Eurostat, which calculated the value of both imported and exported EVs to and from the EU.